1. Bernard of Clairvaux
   Robin Hood
2. Lady Macbeth
   Richard III

Robin Hood is a figure of legend, first referred to in the writings of the late Middle Ages. His reputation for "stealing from the rich to give to the poor" has grown throughout the centuries.

1. Extraordinaries
   Lords
2. Supremes
   Thieves

The House of Lords is made up of members from the peerage. They are divided into Lords Spiritual (from the Church of England) and Lords Temporal, peers from the secular class.

1. The Archbishop of Canterbury
   The Pope of Britannia
2. The Bishop Royal
   The Star Chamber

To be technical, the current king or queen is the head of the church (much like the president of the U.S. is Commander in Chief of the military). In practice, though, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the top clergyman.

1. Stephen Fry
   Michael Billington
2. Laurence Olivier
   Alec Guinness

Olivier was a giant of stage and screen. He was knighted late in life, as was his peer, Guinness (who might be best known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars.")

1. Clothing
   Food
2. Perfume
   Nearly anything

Harrods is a department store whose motto is "Omnia omnibus ubique," or "Everything for everyone, everywhere." The giant building looks like the box that Downton Abbey came in.

1. A football pitch
   A music venue
2. A historic pub
   A tennis championship

The formal name of the tournament is "The Wimbledon Tennis Championships." However, the overall district is home to a posh shopping area, as well as a lot of public land, open to ramblers and dog walkers.

1. Oliver Twist
   Great Expectations
2. Vanity Fair
   A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens was a prolific writer who produced 15 novels and more than 100 short stories. He needed to keep the work coming -- he had 11 children.

1. The Other Queen
   The English Rose
2. The Iron Lady
   Lady Macbeth

This was also the name of a 2011 film about Thatcher. American actress Meryl Streep played the lead role.

1. Nero Wolfe
   Murder, She Wrote
2. Midsomer Murders
   The Last Detective

"Murder, She Wrote" was a wildly popular American show in the "cozy" mystery subgenre. Angela Lansbury, its star, was born in London.

1. Guitarist Andrew Ridgeley
   Film producer Dodi Fayed
2. Philanthropist Bob Geldof
   Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich

Fayed was the son a wealthy Egyptian family. His father owned Harrods and the Paris Ritz. Fayed, who was a producer on films like "Chariots of Fire," died along with Diana in the 1997 car crash.

1. Anne Boleyn
   Jane Seymour
2. Catherine Parr
   Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of the much-married Henry, and a favorite with the English people. She lived out her days, after Henry discarded her, in the English countryside.

1. Anglicans
   High Churchers
2. Protestants
   Recusants

The faith of the Church of England is popularly known as "Anglicanism." "Recusants" were Catholics who refused to worship at Anglican churches in the years after the schism.

1. The Alberts
   The BAFTAs
2. The Hugos
   The Covent Garden Awards

The awards are given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

1. Jane Seymour
   Catherine Howard
2. Anne Boleyn
   Both #2 and #3

Both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were executed. Both women were convicted of "treasonous" sexual affairs, leading to their deaths and that of their lovers.

1. Emmerdale
   Coronation Street
2. Guiding Light
   Hollyoaks

"Guiding Light" was a long-running American soap opera. Of the English shows listed, "Coronation Street" is probably the best known. It's been on the air since 1960 and is loved for its view of working-class life.

1. 1955
   1963
2. 1970
   1982

The show follows the adventures of a "Time Lord" who travels the universe in a spaceship called the TARDIS (disguised as a "police box.") When the first actor to play the Doctor became ill, the writers came up with the idea that the Doctor could take on a new body; this allowed the series to continue with a new actor.

1. House M.D.
   Doctor Who
2. Sherlock
   The Last Detective

"Sherlock" began airing in 2010, and has become a worldwide sensation. The series brings the Sherlock Holmes story into the present day, with Sherlock Holmes meeting up with an Army doctor, John Watson, just back from the Afghanistan conflict.

1. Neville Chamberlain
   H.H. Asquith
2. Clement Atlee
   David Lloyd George

Chamberlain is now mostly known to history for his policy of appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Churchill, on the other hand, gave the famous "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech and became the subject of flattering movies like "Darkest Hour."

1. Charles Dickens
   Henry James
2. T.S. Eilot
   Both #2 and #3

Some writers are claimed by "both side of the Atlantic," as literature professors like to put it. Both England and America take pride in these expatriate authors who found a home in England.

1. Queen Elizabeth I's coronation
   The Great Fire of London
2. The Norman Invasion
   The split from the Catholic Church

The invaders were from three political entities of the time -- France, Normandy, and Breton, now all part of modern-day France. The Norman Invasion changed the language and culture of the British Isles forever.

1. In a bank vault
   In a pensioner's garden plot
2. Under the altar of Westminster Abbey
   Under a parking lot

The Richard III Society, a group that believes Richard was a better king than Shakespeare's depiction of him makes out, pushed for the excavation. Sure enough, the king's remains lay under the pavement of a parking lot (which, to clarify, was once the site of a church.)

1. Jane Austen
   Thomas Hardy
2. Charles Dickens
   Henry James

Hardy was a realist and social critic who wrote about the changing lives of working-class rural people. His characters are sometimes crushed under the wheels of modernity, like his most famous heroine, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."

1. 1115
   1215
2. 1315
   1415

The Magna Carta was an agreement between the king and a group of rebel barons. Its text is complicated, but essentially it protected personal and religious liberties, and influenced the U.S. Constitution centuries later.

1. Three
   Five
2. Six
   Eight

Austen was working on a seventh, now called "Sanditon," when she died. The other novels are "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Northanger Abbey," "Persuasion," "Emma," and "Mansfield Park."

1. At a football match
   In the Houses of Parliament
2. At a Shakespearean revival
   At a comedy festival

"Backbenchers" are the less-elite members of the House of Commons. The term falls somewhere between "rank-and-file" and "peanut gallery."

1. William Blake
   William Hogarth
2. Edward Burne-Jones
   James Whistler

Blake wrote "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which are probably his best-known poems. You might also know him because of his painting, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun," which features prominently in crime novelist Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon" and its film and television adaptations.

1. Christopher Marlowe
   John Donne
2. Samuel Johnson
   William Shakespeare

Donne is known for both saucy love poetry in his youth and later in life, religious poems. He saw himself as two men: irreverent "Jack Donne" and pious "Reverend Donne."

1. The British peerage
   English cookery
2. Literary history
   Lawn tennis

"Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage" is a listing of what used to be called the "noble" families of England, with short histories. It is published every four years.

1. Arthur Conan Doyle
   Dick Francis
2. Ken Bruen
   Colin Cotterill

Dick Francis, a former jockey, collaborated with his wife, Mary, to become one of England's best-loved writers. The pair started out writing about the world of racing and its denizens, but quickly branched out into other subjects.

1. Leeds
   Wigan
2. Manchester
   Sheffield

"The Full Monty" was a cheeky (literally!), feel-good film set in the economically-depressed steel town. A group of unemployed steelworkers put on a all-male nude cabaret to make money.

1. Six
   Eight
2. 10
   12

If you've been hiding under a rock, you might have missed the kerfuffle over Jodie Whittaker's casting as the 12th doctor. She is the first woman to play the part.

1. Barbara George
   Arthur Conan Doyle
2. P.D. James
   Mary Shelley

P.D. James wrote 14 novels about Scotland Yard detective Dalgliesh. But she's also known for "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman," introducing a quietly resourceful female protagonist, Cordelia Gray.

1. Eleanor of Aquitaine
   Aphra Behn
2. Heloise
   Elizabeth I

The Duchess of Aquitaine by birth, Eleanor first married King Louis VII of France, then Henry II of England. Three of her sons became kings -- and all this family lore doesn't scratch the surface of how Eleanor wielded power in her own right.

1. Robert Catesby
   Guy Fawkes
2. Father Henry Garnet
   Hugo Weaving

Though Fawkes is the one who sticks in public memory, he was only the man who guarded the gunpowder, because he had military experience. But Robert Catesby spearheaded the plot to blow up Parliament, all in an attempt to restore England to Catholicism. Catesby, said to be a charismatic leader, drew other men like Fawkes to his cause.

1. Blackpool
   London
2. Manchester
   Oxford

Blackpool is a seaside resort. Its position high on the northwest coast makes it a popular destination for people from cities like Leeds and Manchester.